- SpamStopper has been discontinued
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Developer
Railhead Design
SpamStopper is a Web designer's utility that will help keep email address harvesting spambots from grabbing email addresses from your website(s).
It encodes the text of your email address so that it no longer looks like an email address in your HTML, which makes all the current harvesting spambots ignore it when they scan Internet pages.
Basically, indexing spiders look for certain email address-identifying characters, and SpamStopper makes it so that those characters aren't displayed... it's pretty much that simple.
It encodes the text of your email address so that it no longer looks like an email address in your HTML, which makes all the current harvesting spambots ignore it when they scan Internet pages.
Basically, indexing spiders look for certain email address-identifying characters, and SpamStopper makes it so that those characters aren't displayed... it's pretty much that simple.
What's New
Version 1.6:
- Now Universal Binary.
- Retooled some basic code for faster execution.
- Fixed a few interface issues here and there.
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SpamStopper is a Web designer's utility that will help keep email address harvesting spambots from grabbing email addresses from your website(s).
It encodes the text of your email address so that it no longer looks like an email address in your HTML, which makes all the current harvesting spambots ignore it when they scan Internet pages.
Basically, indexing spiders look for certain email address-identifying characters, and SpamStopper makes it so that those characters aren't displayed... it's pretty much that simple.
It encodes the text of your email address so that it no longer looks like an email address in your HTML, which makes all the current harvesting spambots ignore it when they scan Internet pages.
Basically, indexing spiders look for certain email address-identifying characters, and SpamStopper makes it so that those characters aren't displayed... it's pretty much that simple.
Constantin reviewed on 06 Nov 2003
In other words, using SpamStopper should cut down on the amount of Spam you receive as a result of posting a e-mail address on your web-site.
The nice thing about SpamStopper is the nnumber of options it gives you. For a long time, the standard response to scrapers was via the use of unicode characters (which work with most/all browsers while shielding the content from many scrapers).
Even better, SpamStopper also allows more secure means via javascripts, etc. However, Javascripts will make your site less accessible, as some browsers have that turned off for security.
Anyway, as the scrapers evolve, so does SpamStopper. The program is well-maintained and does what it claims to do well. The interface is simple and intuitive. Much commercial software could learn a thing or two.
Lastly, using an obfuscating tool like SpamStopper has some negatives. Some web-bots "break" on Unicode and will flood your error log with 404's. Furthermore, SpamStopper is but a single tool. In order to maximize site security, you ought to also use .htaccess, robots.txt, and honeypot files to punish naughty bots.
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If you really were an admin, you'd be able to write a Perl script in LESS THAN 300 BYTES to do better what this monstrosity does in well over a megabyte.
What's really needed is a tool to comb sites and protect them after the fact, automatically ferreting out all mailto's and substituting good obfuscation.
This horse of an application is long dead; the author should freakin' give it up. It does nearly nothing, and does it poorly - what's the point?
Anonymous reviewed on 06 Nov 2003